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DIY Faux Book Stack: Quick & Easy Valentine's Day Decor

If you're looking for a creative and budget-friendly way to decorate your home this Valentine's Day, try making a DIY faux book stack decor project. With just a few supplies and simple steps, you can create a charming and romantic decoration that will add a lovely touch to your space.
 For those who follow the blog regularly, you may already know that I like to use wooden crates from Dollar Tree to create faux book stacks for various occasions. In this project, we'll be making an easy book stack specifically for Valentine's Day.
Wooden crate faux Valentine's book stack

DIY Faux Book Stack: Quick & Easy Valentine's Day Decor
Video tutorial


Materials-wooden crate, faux floral, acrylic paint and twine

Materials:

- One wooden crate box (purchased at Dollar Tree)

- Acrylic paint

- Floral cutters

- Twine

- Faux flowers

- Scissors

- Hot glue

- Paintbrush

Applying acrylic paint to the wooden crate

Black Wooden crate box and acrylic paint

Finished pink painted wooden crate box

For this project, I used a wooden crate that I had previously painted black. If you're using an unpainted crate, you won't need to apply as many layers of paint. I used a mix of two paint colors - a lighter pink and white - for Valentine's Day.

Attaching twine and floral 
Floral cutters, faux mini roses near wooden crate and bundle of twine
After applying your paint, allow it to dry fully. Then, use floral cutters to trim your flowers to the desired size. I added some faux miniature roses in my craft box to the top of my crate. I wrapped twine around the crate and flowers to hold them in place. If your crate doesn't lay flat after adding twine, cut the middle of the twine and glue the ends to the inside.

Next, attach a fabric heart to the front of your crate using hot glue. Finally, use a small paintbrush to add any words of your choice. I added "love you always," but you could also use sticker lettering.

Close up of pink wooden crate with faux roses wrapped in twine

Close up of top of wooden crate showing faux mini roses and twine
 You have completed your Valentine's wooden book stack! I hope you enjoyed making it. 

Here are some other book stacks that you may enjoy

Budget-Friendly Fall Decor: Dollar Tree Wooden Crate turned into an Autumn Book Stack

Decorative Spring Wooden Stacked Books

DIY Wood Stacked Books

Christmas Book Stack Decoration

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Pinterest pin showing pink painted faux wooden book stack with flowers, twine and fabric heart


Comments

  1. Oh, what a great idea with the crate! Makes it extra easy. This is darling! Pinning. :) Visiting from Crazy Little Lovebirds linkup.

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    1. Jennifer, aw thank you! Yes, this is so easy to create and it is budget-friendly as well. Thank you for visiting.

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  2. That is such a great idea! Thank you for sharing with us at Talking About it Tuesdays.

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  3. What a great way to use those little crate boxes! You are so clever with your DIYs

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    1. Amy, aw thank you. I appreciate you visiting ❤️

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  4. This is beautiful! You could do all kinds of themes with these.
    Thanks so much for sharing with #MMBC. Hope to see you again Stephanie! :)

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    1. Jayne, thank you so much. Yes, I love creating them for different themes.

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  5. What a great idea! It’s really pretty!

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  6. great project, I'd love to have you share with Create-it Link Party https://tryit-likeit.com/link-party-it/

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